A lot of times you'll need to do set extensions, or expanding a scene. …And in this case, I've got this small town. …It's kind of a, an older building's in a small town. …I wanted to kind of give this a little more of a metropolitan feel. …So I enlarge the building and added some new buildings and throw a water tower in there. …And it just made it a more metropolitan without looking like big city. …I just wanted to kind of increase my set here, and also get rid of a couple …elements here. And this was all done in Photoshop, and …After Effects. I didn't really use any other plugins or …anything to do this. I'm going to go through a couple movies here …and show you how to achieve this kind of a look.…

Even when you're using you know, standard definition footage. …You know, you can notice I've got some noise up here. …So I'm going to show you a movie after this one about creating a matching noise movie …in Photoshop. Which is really kind of a cool trick and …I've been using it for years to kind of bring my mattes to life. …

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2/24/2012

In this workshop Jeff Foster—video producer, compositor, visual effects artist, and author of The Green Screen Handbook—teaches you the advanced tips, tricks, and workflow techniques he's used over the years to get great video/film composites, even when working with near-impossible footage. Learn advanced roto-painting techniques for the Wacom tablet and get up to speed on motion tracking, multipass mattes, multiple keying layers, simulated lighting effects, painting on video background plates, and more. Finally, Jeff shows how to apply what you've learned to a series of real-world projects in Adobe After Effects.